Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname for a bald man or one who kept his hair extremely close-cropped, from Middle English not(te) ‘bald’ (Old English hnott).
- English : variant spelling of Knott.
- German : of uncertain origin; perhaps either a nickname for an inconspicuous person, from Middle Low German not(e) ‘nut’, or a derivative of Middle Low German note ‘companion’.